Jay Lake

July 20, 2010

Writer Jay Lake has posted about his cancer situation, and the need for further chemo. Go by his livejournal and let him know he’s in your thoughts. I hope he will make sure to take care of hiimself, and I think it’s not an unreasonable thing to say that it’s really important at this point to be supportive. Any external stressors are going to be just one more thing he has to deal with, and I will have zero sympathy for anyone who adds to that stress during this period.

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Not a chance of that happening, at least not from my end. I had a really scary near miss last summer (there’s that special joy of spending your birthday getting a CT scan to ascertain whether or not that lump in your lung is scar tissue from a previous bout of pneumonia or something much worse), so I’m offering what I can, when I can, to help out.

About Jeff VanderMeer

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Jeff VanderMeer's most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), released in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Foreign rights have sold in 17 countries and the movie rights have been acquired by Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions. His latest nonfiction books include Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Image). His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Atlantic.com, Vulture.com, and the Los Angeles Times. VanderMeer recently taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference and has lectured at MIT and the Library of Congress. You can contact him at pressinfo at vandermeercreative.com. (Author photo by Kyle Cassidy.) More...